skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The short sellers knew the risk. Hedge fund managers know what a short squeeze is, and should have realized that opening (or holding) a large short on a stock that already has a short ratio over 100% is just asking to be squeezed. The people who should be rewarded are those who understood this risk and capitalized off it (/r/wallstreetbets).
You can use social media, without using social media. Let me explain.

For example I tangentally consider meetup groups to be social media, but the entire point is that you actually meet people in real life. That led to me meeting one of my partners in 2019

I also do keep a Facebook around so when I meet people traveling I can just add them easily, I almost never ever use anything aside from Facebook messenger, and to maybe view a few events that my friends are organizing.

I think the key way to think about Facebook is that it's original purpose, keep talking to your college friends, wasn't bad. It's just it's mutated purpose of trying to spread mis information, spreading gossip, and bullying are absolutely disgusting.
Substack: Most Interesting Consumer Startups of 2021 (Part 2)
After Apple dumped Parler from the App Store, A piece of fake news was immediately circulating telling people to "turn off auto-update" on their phones to "prevent apple from removing Parler".

After Apple fell for the fake news that the attacks were planned on Parler (they were planned on Facebook), their predictable reaction seems to have played right into the hands of attackers.

Fascinating game of chess, but unfortunately normal people are on the losing end. A bunch of exploited devices in the wild is good for exactly nobody, no matter your political opinion.
You can buy extra shelves as a form of accessory to the main unit - it just so happens that these accessories are equivalent to the ones that come with it. Fair enough, but IKEA sells them to augment your purchase, not as spares.

This is clear because, as you say, you cannot buy the sides, or the unique bottom piece on its own. And the piece which is most likely to degrade is the one which has many connectors pushed into particle board potentially multiple times - the sides.

Maybe it was a poor example, but I think my point still stands. There are many other furniture products for which no spares are sold, or happen to be available to purchase for other reasons.
The 'losers' are the one's who are buying high and selling low. Ironically in this case, it's the short sellers who can't cover their positions who are being forced to buy at the top, having already sold low.
I don't think it needs to scale well. As I've mentioned elsewhere, the idea that you should be able to easily find arbitrary content on mainstream platforms is very new; as recently as a decade or two ago, it was well-understood that if you're interested in niche ideas you've gotta seek out niche platforms that support them. We just have to resurrect that consensus.

Personalized rabbit holes are certainly a big problem, but establishing radically permissive Youtube moderation won't really do anything to fight them. It doesn't seem like a related issue.
Thoughts on GeTenna?
What about an open source encrypted protocol that uses an RF device like GoTenna on specific longer range frequencies? Anything like that exist?
Relativity was a huge philosophical shift from the comparative simplicity of Newton's laws. It's not surprising that there was resistance to it.

Tesla was famously against relativity, telling the New York Times, "Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king".
> So by that definition I live in a "socialist country"

Not really the country like that, but the parties Christian Social Union and Social Democratic Party, we would name it "socialistic". Anyone in that party would be a "socialist", but not a "communist". So if they would deliver the Chancellor, we would say the country is run by a socialist.

I didn't know about "real socialism". So glad you're all part of EU now :).
I mean, those are pretty low tier journals but...
It’s not as simple as buying paint. You’re not going to use any treatment where research came from a medical school or associated institute without personally proving it works first? Good luck!

If making green paint is impossible I think that it will eventually self correct, or is simply inconsequential. In some instances it may take a while, but if the alternative is to reprove a result before using it — that seems like something only a fool would do or someone with infinite time.
The irony was that my conviction that I looked ghastly only made it worse. I permed my hair and teased my bangs and piled on the makeup and held my breath while I pulled on jeans that were too small for me.

If I'd really seen myself when I looked in the mirror I would have been better off. I didn't, I saw someone who was supposed to look like Cindy Crawford and was failing miserably.
I compression not on by default nowdays?
Anyhow, I would not run ZFS with compression disabled completely. There are edgecases where you want it. The meta data? I can't remember the details.
At least active the compression that just compresses zeros.
Fully automated, interactive plotting with JupyterLab Autoplot
Multiple conspiracies of one?
> This is not even close to a semblance of socialism, this is your government trying to live by the ideology of "free market everything" and patching the holes created by this ideology with a more expensive (and dumber) solution.

I'm not an ardent capitalist, but I think education is an area that would have been better off without government tampering, or perhaps with less-clever tampering. The good bit about our student loan program is that it normalized higher education (perhaps too much to the extent that many would have been happier and more successful in the trades). The bad bit is that government put all risk on the students, allowing for students to elect into programs that wouldn't have a good return on investment--something that virtually no bankers would have signed off on. As a result, two things happened: 1. millions of students annually opt into careers with poor job prospects on the other side and 2. the price of higher education inflated (something like tenfold) to meet the availability of student loan money (and without any corresponding increase in value) because the system isn't steering students (and their loan money) toward programs that deliver. I think if we allowed students to default on their loans, we would see loan prices fall 80% or more ($8K instead of $40K).
> The Japanese manufacturers were not comfortable with firmware updates. "They didn't want the computer experience to be transferred to consumer electronics," Ram said. And that extended not just to updates but also to error handling—"If something goes wrong there's got to be a way to flash the firmware quickly and restore it to the last best-known state"—and startup times. Toshiba expected things to just work.

Love the spirit
It’s fun to actually delve deeper than the headlines on this one.

The main driver of this trade on WSB is a user “deepfuckingvalues”. As of September 2019 they were posting GME holdings of 1,000 Jan 21 calls at $8, a position they built up since June 2019. [1]

The user then posted monthly updates ever since.

By May 2020 they had 2,500 call option contracts and had a net loss of $10k. By August 2020 they had lost $60k on $145k. Then it all started turning around.

They were an activist investor that actively rallied the Board to do buybacks and pushed overall interest in a GME turnaround.

As usual, by the time the mass media picks up on something it looks to the outside world like something that just magically happened like a rocketship taking off in just the last week.

In reality this was over a year in the making by a devoted user of WSB who gained a following over many months of persistence in the face of mounting losses. It was in fact the perfect WSB story. Initially every comment is begging them to sell, and then mocking their losses, and then reveling in their pain... and still they held and posted YOLO month after month.

As of their last update on the 26th their account value is $23mm.

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/u/DeepFuckingValue/
I did come to appreciate how much detail (and therefore) effort goes into a modern UI. I was building something that was effectively a messaging app for my startup. I was doing it in Flutter so progress was good and things generally behaved pretty well. But so many little things needed to be done to get e.g. the input box to behave intuitively (e.g. hide 'attach image' button when writing text). I was basically copying the standard approach from FB Messenger and WhatsApp. Apps at that level of polish have raise out expectation. That changes thing for developers - when it was "just add a button" everyone could pitch in, but now it can be full time work for several people.
It is just a basic introduction to git stash. The article could be improved if it would explain when to use stash and how one of the most common use cases can be avoid using using the setting: git config --global rebase.autoStash true
The article doesn't talk about freedom of speech as protected by the constitution. I was just establishing background for my opinion on the broad subject of social media censorship, which is article is part of.
I think what will happen is that a larger percentage of the US will realize it and not like it. I think the US lives in a bubble but other parts of the world are feeling that shift already.

I wonder how many Americans know that Europe trades more with China than the US. Or that Japan also trades more with China than the US. Same with Africa.

The US is retreating into protectionism, internal struggle, and the opiate of social media.

It’s not that China didn’t play dirty. It’s just that the US is losing.

Having the most expensive military force isn’t nearly as useful if other sides possess nuclear weapons like you. Then it becomes a struggle along other dimensions.

The US seems full of entrenched institutions there just to increase their own power. Yet it is these institutions that are causing the greatest issues.

You have medical costs spiraling out of control. You have educational costs spiraling out of control. You have infrastructure costs spiraling out of control.

Changes in the political order have changed none of this. I don’t see the latest change addressing these either.

You can see this in the actions of the current alpha and the previous alpha. Neither addressed or is addressing how the above consume the largest and ever increasing percentages of GDP without producing corresponding gains.

Are Americans living longer and healthier lives? No, they are living shorter and less healthy lives.

Can a high percentage of the population make good incomes with their expensive educations? No, many are relegated to low wage, dead end service and gig jobs.

Why do we have to deal with inadequate and overpriced transportation, water, and energy infrastructure? How many consecutive years of forest fires does California have to live with?

The new administration just patches things without taking on the institutions themselves.

$15 minimum wage and making college free doesn’t make college more useful. It just provides an endless trough for bad education to feed.

More medicine for all doesn’t address the problem that it is way too expensive. It just feeds more money into a money eating pit.

More purchasing of clean energy infrastructure but enforcing domestic production doesn’t address the problem that your companies produce uncompetitive products. Will buying Ford electric trucks at higher prices than you could get elsewhere help anyone but Ford?
Fidelity Active Trader Pro has been flaky all day, intermittently freezing when streaming data is temporarily lost.
Can you explain to me what happens if people are not going to sell.

Given that there is more shorts then actual stock.
Would it mean that the shorts would be forced to take a loss and buy that stock?

I have very rudimentary knowledge of how this works, asking as I wonder how it actually works.
Insightful, I was curious if you had a position? Such as would you like additional protected classes? Or any particular outcome, its not necessary I was just making sure I didnt miss something you were advocating for.
"Even storing items in-memory compressed sometimes is profitable"

LZ4 is one of the algorithms supported by Zram in Linux. It's fairly popular for people using things like a Raspberry PI that have a smaller amount of RAM.
Confusing that Nasdaq still "opens" but has pretrading before the opening hours?
Didn't Trump suspend H1-B visas? Does Biden have a plan for the program?
That surprises me, as horizontal scaling to demand is a solved problem. One provider, sure, but cascading failures through many, that's a systemic critical infrastructure vulnerability that is going to bring down the regulatory hammer.
I assume the apollo mobile launcher was the inspiration for that star wars vehicle: https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/databank_sandcrawle...
>If they assessed GameStop's value accurately, they should be rewarded.

According to the "invisible hand" of the market, they didn't, since supposedly rational investors on Reddit decided to buy lots of stock to go long. If you're going to claim the Reddit investors are actually irrational, then I have some bad news about most other investors as well.
The majority of individuals are at danger of their old tweets being brought to light years later by other people not three letter agencies. If you remove the ability for people to go back 5 years looking for dirt on someone they dislike you prevent a lot of the drama that drives twitter.
OK but how does it compare to Kraken?
>Its main utility is ability to transfer it between parties securely and quickly

But that's not utility. That's just another form of currency and there are already better, cheaper and more secure ways to transfer currency between two parties. There is literally nothing I can do with a bitcoin other than sell it to someone else.
I love trackpoints, but suspect that they are a lot nicer for gamers who are accustomed to joysticks that respond to how much throttle you supply along each axis than for non-gamers where the micromovements needed are more frustrating.

But now I'm remembering the laptop trackball. Does anyone else remember these? I remember them being built into the back of the monitor (or maybe just below, on the keyboard chasis), so that when you grasped the laptop in both hands near the natural balance point near the monitor, your right thumb would naturally sit atop the trackball.

Suddenly, I'd love to see a micro-computer that had a joystick on the front right and a chording keyboard on the bottom, with meta-keys on top. So you type with 8 fingers on the back (and one left thumb on top), and perform mouse actions with your right thumb (clickable joystick seems about right for the form-factor).
If I understand which board you're talking about (a thin hardboard on the back), I'm usually not worried about that one - I have a stockpile of nails available, and I could probably reinforce it with something I have on hand if the edges degrade too much. My problems are usually that driving screws and other fasteners sometimes damages the material, making the connection single-use only. It's fixable to some extent with adhesives, but once you start pouring glue down the shafts, the whole thing becomes that much harder to disassemble in the future.
> Given that there is more shorts then actual stock. Would it mean that the shorts would be forced to take a loss and buy that stock?

Yes, that's what a short squeeze is. They are losing more and more money as this goes up, and at some point they won't have more money to lose. They'll have to buy (in order to cover their short), which will further drive the price up.
>If they believed the stock was overvalued, are they wrong to bet on that belief?

You characterize it as a "bet". The whole point of a bet is that sometimes you lose. We don't allow for corporations to lose in the USA, only the common person.
Yes I just finally got through, definitely related.
Adafruit also have a python library called Blinka that enables you to use Circuit Python on devices such as the Raspberry Pi
If you short gme you're about to be in very heavy debt to your broker. At least buy a put or something instead.

I don't think anyone is actually long on gamestop at $350 per share, but trying to short is not about company expectations at this point, it's about timing this hysteria wave, and if you mistime it you get destroyed by infinite risk and your broker liquidate your position and you leave with not 10k, but -100k.
I don't understand this critique. Corporate PR is largely propaganda. Our corporatist media isn't willing or able pursue actual journalism to find out the truth, so now we have lot's of people searching for answers on a forum that allows for free speech. If you don't like it, you should probably just stick to cable news.
This runs completely counter to my understanding of shorting and I just checked on my brokerage - there is no limit. The unbounded losses bit is the whole point of put options instead of shorts.
What if they use IPFS for encrypted larger file size messages and treat the main message as they would an on-chain message that references the ipfs CID?
Note: I'm heavily biased due to being vegan.

What I found interesting while reading this was what it _didn't_ say. Specifically, they mention that calves are kept with their mothers for 5-6 months, but what happens to them after that? They also don't say how long they keep the cows themselves for.

Typically male calves are sent for slaughter [1], and females raised to be dairy cows themselves. Furthermore, dairy cows are usually slaughtered after only 5 years of life [2], while the natural lifespan of a dairy cow is ~20 years [3].

[1] http://ontarioveal.on.ca/all-about-veal/the-real-deal-about-...

[2] https://albertamilk.com/ask-dairy-farmer/how-long-does-the-a...

[3] https://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Bos_ta...
The PS2 was basically the inverse of the plan for Nuon. The PS2 was a gaming device first and a DVD player second. Adding the DVD playback feature really got it into many of homes as the first DVD player for the household. If someone was just looking for a DVD player, why would they opt for the more expensive Nuon-enabled device than the cheaper DVD-only device? The only people that would have bought a Nuon-enabled DVD player would have been first adopters looking to actually buy a Nuon. Perhaps Nuon would have had more success selling a console that happened to play DVDs rather than a DVD player that happened to play games. Sony repeated the same strategy for the PS3 as a console that played Blu-rays and had immediate success with that too.

It's like trying to sell a commuter car with a souped up engine next to the cheaper commuter cars. Someone buying a commuter car just wants 4 wheels and an engine at a low cost. Sony sold affordable sports cars that just so happened to be capable of commuting.
This.
I believe that the problem has more to do with most users relying on platforms that are fundamentally advertising companies, and content that doesn’t go well next to an ad gets removed because it becomes a direct threat to revenue. Video sites exist which show very graphic violence, among other things not allowed on YouTube. They’ve been around for years. The issue, I guess, is that they tend to run ads for sketchy business, as they’re the only ones willing to put their name next to that content. The problem IMO isn’t so much that free speech is in jeopardy as the financial incentives of the incumbents are not aligned to support some of the things people want to say.

It can be done, people are just being lazy instead of creative.
I think trying to stop what causes mobs can be noble but will be done in vain, validate people’s ideas since they are now being blocked and it also has the ability to be abused. Media sites spent months blocking, banning, demonetizing, and posting disputes about election fraud but none the less there were still riots at the capital building. I like to think of all these websites as a search engine and so will use Google as an example. If Google blocks searches for illegal activity does it stop that illegal activity? No. Does it even lessen that activity? No. In my opinion is hides it which is actually what those committing illegal acts want. They may not know they want it, but it literally protects them from being found by the ones who can stand up to them, sometimes the police. Let’s say you have a person who makes a threat towards another person and that is blocked before it’s posted. Now, the person who was threatened has no idea they were ever threatened. That person is unable to report to the police the treat and has no evidence of the threat. Not only can they not prepare to protect themselves or defend themselves but their evidence is gone and the person making the threats has no consequences. Google and others do turn over threats to the FBI but let’s be honest they don’t have the time or man power to investigate every threat on the internet. So who does? Websites don’t, but the people who are being threatened do. They need to know. This example obviously doesn’t apply as well to mob attacks, but I think the solution is the same. You need transparency and more visibility to these things not less. You literally need police for the internet, not just moderators. Stop the activity where it becomes illegal but not with hiding it, find a way to enforce that through the government with real world consequences, not through moderation of a narrative.
> And the citations don't actually reflect the true dependencies, but some political/social graph instead. Too bad.

I think this gets to the major concern with Academia today, as it becomes somewhat of a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Curry citations with political savvy, get awarded grants due to citations and political savvy, show that you are productive due to citations, grants, and political savvy - earning yet more political capital.

This will probably become my go to explanation for why Academic CS research has largely become decoupled from industrial application and industrial research. While political savvy is important in a large corporation, eventually you need to produce results.
Ask HN: Sites that self-host their web analytics?
I am trying to gather arguments to convince some of our SaaS customers to start to self-host their web analytics in lieu of Google Analytics.

For example Matomo, Plausible.io, Fathom Analytics (there are probably others) all support self-hosting their solutions.

Besides the usual arguments of less legal expose, simplified GDPR consents and so on, I would like to also appeal to the limbic system in the marketers' heads, by showcasing some great examples of well-known and respectable companies that have gone down this route.

But I cannot find any such resource.

Are you self-hosting your web analytics? How is the mileage?

If you are not eager to reveal your affiliations, perhaps you have noticed some websites that did not sell you out immediately?
The max gains on shorting stock is 100% and that’s ignoring fees you have to pay which are extremely high for GME right now.

Unless you plan to use 10x leverage or trade options, which I doubt if you don’t trade individual stocks, you can’t 10x by shorting. On the flip side, if you shorted at $20, you would have lost your entire portfolio if you shorted with 5% of your capital.

Shorting here is trying to catch a falling knife, don’t do it.